quaverとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English quaveren, frequentative form of quaven, cwavien (“to tremble”), equivalent to quave +‎ -er. Cognate with Low German quabbeln (“to quiver”), German quabbeln, quappeln (“to quiver”). More at quave, quab, quiver.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkweɪvə(ɹ)/
  • 韻: -eɪvə(ɹ)

名詞

quaver (複数形 quavers)

1. A trembling shake.
2. A trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing.
3. (music) an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.
   • 1920 August 27​, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Wind Blows”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, OCLC 561951956, pages 140–141:

     The crotchets and quavers are dancing up and down the stave like little black boys on a fence.

関連する語

• semiquaver
• demisemiquaver
• hemidemisemiquaver

参考

• breve
• crotchet
• longa
• minim
• semibreve

動詞

quaver (三人称単数 現在形 quavers, 現在分詞 quavering, 過去形および過去分詞形 quavered)

1. To shake in a trembling manner.
2. (intransitive) To use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing.
3. (transitive) To utter quaveringly.
   • 1711 November 5 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “THURSDAY, October 25, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 205; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     We shall hear her quavering them […] to some sprightly airs of the opera.